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@Xiph1980
August 18, 2025 at 11:41 am
No. This is not the way. Stop it with the AI.
@JorikDozy
August 18, 2025 at 12:09 pm
I keep wondering, who is this AI content for? Who actually wants any of this?
@zlSteinchen
August 18, 2025 at 1:34 pm
I just started to binge some TED Talks until here. What did i just see? o.o If AI SLOP even conquered even TED Talks – lets go netflix, by youtube
Yeah, in a few years that could be good. But not for us. The already big companys will make the most money out of it, why dont you talk about that TED?
@kredgen
August 18, 2025 at 9:21 pm
The weird sock character gives it this dirty Innuendo that doesn’t really work. Maybe that’s the point, but it’s kinda gross. I understand that he is showing us the capabilities of AI, but is it really an art if it’s just a bunch of prompts?
@nandinidash3195
August 19, 2025 at 6:45 am
😀
@architecturesupport
August 19, 2025 at 6:14 pm
It’s also worth noting that the AI slop will feed into the training of future AIs. And I don’t think this feedback loop will be beneficial for the quality of output… I fear we have already shifted our baseline to accepting lots of this crap: just look at social media feeds and all…
@JulyareJuly
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 pm
i really think its not about only AI. It’s about our big kind of power we have with current technologies
@fbrann_
August 21, 2025 at 2:18 am
AI turns small ideas into big screen magic ✨
@bilawalsidhu
August 21, 2025 at 6:48 pm
It’s kind of nuts what a small but talented team can accomplish